How To Use Windows 8 Themes in Windows 7

by windowsiso on October 29, 2012

To better support the multi-monitor setup, Windows 8 themes have features that are not supported in Windows 7. Therefore, you cannot open Windows 8 themes on a Windows 7 computer, at least not directly. It sucks because those only Windows 8 and Windows RT supported themes on Microsoft Personalization Gallery look awesome.

Thanks to Into Windows, there is a workaround that allows us to port a Windows 8 theme to Windows 7 system, though those Windows-8-only features will not be available.

Basically, here is what you need to do.

1. Download and extract the content from .deskthemepack file. 7Zip is your best friend to easily achieve this.